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Youtube Playlist (click top right icon for songtitles) January January 2 – WWII: Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in North Africa. Landing at Saidor: 13,000 US and Australian troops land on Papua New Guinea, in an attempt to cut offContinue Reading

Youtube Playlist (click top right icon for songtitles) January January 1 – The British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that had been stored and cooled. January 9 – WWI: Gallipoli Campaign: The last British troops are evacuated from Gallipoli, as the Ottoman Empire prevails over a joint British and French operation toContinue Reading

Youtube Playlist (click top right icon for songtitles) January January 2 Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch purchases the largest-selling British Sunday newspaper, The News of the World. People’s Democracy begins a march from Belfast to Derry City, Northern Ireland to gain publicity and to promote its cause. January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. January 5 Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashesContinue Reading

Youtube Playlist (click top right icon for songtitles)   January January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. January 5 – The 7.1 Mw Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 10,000 and 14,621 were killed and 26,783 were injured. January 14 – Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War. January 15 – After a 32-monthContinue Reading

Youtube Playlist (click top right icon for songtitles) January January 9 – iTunes is launched. January 13 – A 7.6 magnitude earthquake hits all of El Salvador, killing at least 800 people and leaving thousands homeless. January 15 – Wikipedia is launched. January 16 – Assassination of Laurent-Désiré Kabila: The President of the Congo is shot in his office and is rushed toContinue Reading

Youtube Playlist (click top right icon for songtitles) January January 1 The Open Skies mutual surveillance treaty, initially signed in 1992, officially enters into force. The Euro is officially introduced in the Eurozone countries. The former currencies of all the countries that use the Euro ceased to be legal tender on February 28. January 17 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic ofContinue Reading

Youtube Playlist (click top right icon for songtitles) January January 22 The last signal from NASA’s Pioneer 10 spacecraft is received, some 12.2 billion kilometers (7.6 billion mi) from Earth. A 7.6-magnitude earthquake strikes the state of Colima in southwestern Mexico, killing at least 29. February February 1 – At the conclusion of the STS-107 mission, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry over Texas, killing allContinue Reading

Youtube Playlist (click top right icon for songtitles) January January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt, killing all 148 aboard, making it one of the deadliest aviation accidents in Egyptian history at the time. January 4 – NASA’s MER-A (Spirit) spacecraft lands on the surface of Mars.Continue Reading

Youtube Playlist (click top right icon for songtitles) January January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the worst Dutch rail disaster. January 9 – Cuba and the Soviet Union sign a trade pact. January 12 – The Indonesian Army confirms that it hasContinue Reading